Conducting film music requires an even temperament. By Jason Lipshutz, The Associated Press It all started with “Bonanza.” As a child, Mike Nowak was fascinated by the intricacies of Jay Livingston ...

For those aspiring composers without friends in high places, the best bet is still an established music school. The Hollywood Reporter polled more than 600 industry professionals to compile the annual ...

Max Steiner, the pioneering film composer who wrote the music for “King Kong” and “Gone With the Wind,” was once complimented as the man who invented modern movie music. “Nonsense,” he replied. “The ...

Sound and music in films do more than merely enhance our experience of a film's narrative. They can also affect the ways in which we perceive ourselves and how we act. Sound and music in films do more ...

VARIETY: Is there a good case to be made that Steiner’s music for “King Kong” in 1933 is the most important film score of all time? SMITH: I think there’s no greater way to turn someone off something ...

John Williams may be the most decorated film score composer in history, but he has confessed a dislike for film music. “I never liked film music very much,” he said in an interview for his upcoming ...

Rappers All.OK, Chandan Shetty and ViRaj Kannadiga will soon debut as Kannada film music directors “In the Indie scene, you release a single every now and then, which is a song, that you compose, sing ...

Soundtrack labels continued to thrive in 2021, discovering old film scores worth preserving and expanding classics to meet the seemingly insatiable thirst for music written for screens large and small ...